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PINNED Instana on OpenShift Route Flexibility
Hi, My customer has a question about Instana route definitions on OCP. Basically, they have an OCP console address like console-openshift-console.apps.ocpcluster.ibm.com. According to the document; - basedn URL should be like instana.apps.ocpclust...
PINNED Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...

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Add customizable columns to the event page

It would be nice to have customizable columns on the events list.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Future consideration

Gray out DWC options if user does not have access to IWS sec file

Manage workload definitions > Select engine > "Search job definition" > "Advanced" > "search for job name that dont have access, e.g. "Unau*" > "select all of them" > click edit
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Ability to setup email alerts on APM usage and active licenses in Account & Billing.

We have requirement to setup email alerts or any alert channel on APM usage and active licenses on a particular tenant whenever the license usage is more then 85% we would like to sent an alert to a concern teams.
11 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Enabling Java 2 security should not break the application

Based on Visa Security policies we have to enable Java 2 security. However, enabling Java 2 security will break the JazzSM/WebGUI application. All the icons will go missing after logging into WebGUI. IBM has provided a workaround to add the below ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 7 Planned for future release

Consider disabling file serving and directory browsing (fileServingEnabled & com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.disallowAllFileServing)

According to Visa Security policies fileServingEnabled property should be disabled on all the /WEB-INF/ibm-web-ext.xmi' file(s). This property is managed by global property which is com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.disallowAllFileServing. If this is set tr...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 8 Functionality already exists

if we add the job in expired stream while saving it should send / flash the warning message to operator.

It should flash a warning message in TDWC/CLI while saving the job in expired jobstream, There is high possibility to add a job inside an expired stream which will be happening globally on all TWS projects.
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Qualify TSAMP 4.1.04 on Centos 7.4 and Later

Referencing Salesforce Case - TS001479603 We would like to have TSAMP qualified for Centos 7.4 and later. Based on DB2 AESE Compatibility Report - https://www.ibm.com/software/reports/compatibility/clarity-reports/report/html/softwareReqsForProduc...
over 5 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 3 Not under consideration

Modify how DA launches a job to mimic how FTA launches the same job

FTA launches a job by first launching jobmanrc and then if LOCAL_RC_OK is set to true, it launches .jobmanrc in the logon user's home dir. In this process, it never sets the variable PATH. A DA launches a job by first launching taskLauncher.sh and...
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Enforce Auditing justification and reporting in all interfaces, not just DWC

In 9.4 the ability to enforce the addition of a justification and a change/incident record number (from ServiceNow for instance) to all plan and database changes was added when these actions originate from the DWC. No equivalent ability to enforce...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Add support for INP

Currently you support data on other CWV, when will you be adding INP?
12 months ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Not under consideration